The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-12-03
Maryland Affairs.

/ on Monday at SlU4, closing al lUoV1llO.
Samuel Kinks, former mayor of Balti-
more, died in Frederick, on Wednesday, in
| his 73rd year.
DR.. George Diehl, who had been pastor of
the Lutheran church in Frederick for SO years,
has resigned.
Louis d. Turner, residing near Wye Mills,
Queen Anne's county, hung himself on Mon
day morning last.
VIM. Lacey, colored, was sentenced to the
penitentiaIy by the Montgomery county court
on Thursday for horse stealing.
Thomas II. Matthews, well known farmer
and miller, of the eighth district of Baltimore
county, has made deed of trust
Owing the bad condition of the water many
wells at Oakland have been ordered to be
closed by physicians, as an epidemic Is
feared.
The farmers in various parts of Talbot
county are planting large orchards. MIR.
Robert X. Butler, of Trappe, has set out 1000
peach trees.
Two persons have been arrested in Cecil
county for malicious destruction of school pro-
perry. They were held for the action of the
grand jury.
Among the personal effects of Mrs. Ellen
Moore, deceased, of Snow Hill, was piece OF
the outer coffin of George Washington, which
was removed in 1881.
The barn and contents of James o. Hooper,
in Middletown Valley, Frederick county, were
burned on Thursday, caused by man smok-
ing pipe at the barn.
Daniel Marshall, aged II and nearly blind,
| has been sentenced to the House of Correc-
ton for three months, for selling whisky, by
the Talbot county court.
1t is proposed to hold meeting represent
ing the canal counties of Maryland to memoir
ialize Congress for federal aid to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal.
Work is rapidly progressing on the Drum
Point Railroad. 1t will be about 40 miles
| in length, and will make connection at Anna
polls with both railroads there.
VIM. McKewen, formerly clerk of the cir
cult court, Baltimore city, has been declared
insane. He was prominent in Democratic
politics for number of years.
On Thursday morning the barn of J. E.
| Thomas, near Hagerstown, was burned, to-
gether with all the contents. The insurance
on barn and contents was So, 100.
Miss Fanny Routzahn, of Cavetown, Wash
ington county, who sued the Western Mary
land Railroad for injuries sustained in getting
on train, received $500 damages.
A servant girl and the three year-old son
| of Mrs Elliott, in Baltimore, were found
dead on Saturday morning, having been suf-
located by gas, which had been left open in
their room.
DR.. E. d. Neighbors, of Frederick county,
has resigned his post of physician at the Red
Lake Indian reservation in Minnesota. DIR.
Fl. X. Derr, of Woodsburg, has been appoint
ed to fill the vacancy.
Thomas c. Wingate, of Charles county,
who shot and killed John Coombs, colored, on
November 18th, was convicted on Wednesday
ofmurder in the second degree, and sentenced
to the penitentiary for II years and months.
John E. Reynolds, well known citizen Of
! Hagerstown, cou.hitted suicide on Sunday by
shooting himself in the head with pistol.
| He had been sufferer from neuralgia for a
long time.
On Thursday night of last week, Susan
Horsey objected to Sam Mills waiting on an
| other duskey damsel, and after some hot
words shot him in the back with a pistol.
Sam will die, and Susan is now languishing
| in Jail in Somerset county.
| A fight occurred in Cumberland saloon,
on Thanksgiving day, in which colored
man struck a white man on the head with
bottle. The fight was kept quiet until Sun
day, when the injured mans condition be-
came alarming and the negro was arrested.
When the white man entered the saloon he
had S1000in his pocket, but when taken home
| it was gone.
Andrew Knacker, German, about eighty
five years of age, attempted suicide early
| Monday morning at st. Joseph's Hospital,
Baltimore, by cutting his throat with a razor.
| The man, who is said to be Norwegian sail
or, has been in the hospital for sometime,
and was considered harmless, He has been
quite feeble of late because of his advanced
age. He has since died.
w. S. Green, merchant of Millington,
became involved in a quarrel with a boy
named VIM Bottomley on Friday night of
last week. During the scuffle the boy caught
Green by the throat aud ruptured some AFTER
les that had been injured Is years ago. The
parties were separated and Green returned to
his place of business. During the night he
spat blood, soon became unconscious and
died on Saturday night.
Mr.. George Hergesheimer, a well known
butcher, of Frederick, died at the Maryland
Medical University, Baltimore, on Sunday
night, of general prostration. He went to
Baltimore several weeks ago for the purpose
of undergoing an operation at the hands of
DIR. Tiffany, for the removal of stone from
the bladder, but became too weak to have
the operation performed. He was about Sc
years of age and leaves widow but no child
rem.
Messrs Henry Z. Wootton, John G. Rogers
and A. p. Hobbs, as trustees, sold on We'd
nesday two farms belonging to the late Nimrod
B. Dorsey, in the fourth district of Howard
county, one. containing 1913 acres. TO Miss
Carrie and Isabella Dorsey jointly, at $3.50
per acre, and the other, containing l76 acres,
| to Vim. H. Forsythe for S74. 20 peracre. The
trustees offered four other farms, aggregating
431 acres, in Carroll, Frederick and Howard
counties, all of which were withdrawn because
of the low price offered.
Mrs. Mary Downs, oolored. aged 90 years.
died Saturday morning at 522 Preston street,
near Druid Bill avenue. She was born in
1895, and up to the last moment her faculties
remained unimpaired. Until within a very
| few years past her energy and industry were
remarkable, and she was most faithful and
efficient in everything she undertook. As an
ld.time Maryland cook her reputation was
unexcelled. She was respected and liked by
large circle of friends, who kindly mani
tested their sympathy during her brief illness.
I She leaves two daughters, three sons ten
grandchildren and fourteen great-grand chill
dren.
The new NJ. L. Church, near Cooksville,
Howard county, was dedicated on Sunday
last. The building cost $4,000 and is paid
for. Rev. c. c. Baldwin, of Washington,
ID. c., preached the sermon. The church
stands upon beautiful eminence, with fine
shade trees, and has a lot of several acres at
tached for cemetery. The building is Of
Gothic architecture, and is surmounted by
tower over 100 feet in height, which forms the
main entrance. The main auditorium is %
by SO feet, the seats being arranged in am
phitheatre form. The Sunday school room,
adjoining, is 16 by % feet, and by means Of
sliding doors both rooms can be thrown into
one, the whole of which is heated from a fur
mace in the basement. From the ceiling is
suspended a chandelier of beautiful design,
with twelve jets. The pulpit, furniture and
altar railing are of walnut, the pews are of |
white ash, and the trimmings and wainscoting |
are of cherry and walnut. The interior is !
amply lighted with cathedral and stained
glass windows, among them being four me-
mortal windows inscribed as follows ITO |
Mrs. Ann E. Carroll by her daughter, Mrs. |
L. D. Shipley;" SIN memory of the moth.
ers and fathers who sustained the old McKen-
dree Church, 'In memory of Arab Ship
ley, by her children SIN memory of the |
work and workers of 1861
On Tuesday the annual meeting of the State
Association of Public School Commissioners
was held in Baltimore. Prof. Newell presen
toJ tbo eotiou,tn, etot.ct,oa - Al